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Kingsborough Community College Receives $10G Student Scholarship Grant from Northfield Bank Foundation
Sep 28th
Dr. Regina Peruggi, president of Kingsborough Community College (KCC), Brooklyn’s only community college, today announced that the college has been awarded a second $10,000 scholarship grant by the Northfield Bank Foundation. The first award was made in June, 2010. The grant will provide a $500 scholarship for twenty students from Staten Island and select areas of Brooklyn, helping them stay in school and achieve their educational goals. To be eligible to receive scholarships, students must be in good academic standing.
“The entire KCC community joins me in thanking the Northfield Bank Foundation for their generosity in awarding a grant to provide financial aid to our students who need assistance to continue their studies,” said Dr. Peruggi. “More than 18,000 degree-seeking students were enrolled at KCC this past spring, coming from 142 countries and speaking 73 languages.
They are determined and persistent, but they need financial support and the grant from Northfield Bank Foundation will be immensely beneficial to them.”
Kingsborough Community College nursing students participate in a transcultural experience in Ecuador
Sep 28th
On June 19, 2011, at 1 AM, eight third-semester clinical nursing students and three nursing faculty and staff members boarded a plane for Ecuador and began a journey that is likely to change them forever.
The faculty at KCC provided the clinical nursing students the opportunity to take part in the life of another country and to become clinically immersed in its culture. Professor George W. Contreras, director of the Allied Health Programs at KCC, initiated the project by submitting a proposal that was selected for a President’s Faculty Innovation Award to fund a week-long trip to Ecuador for Nursing faculty and third semester clinical nursing students.
The students worked in several hospitals including the Ecuadorean Institute of Social Security (IESS), Provincial Hospital Dr. Verdi Cevallos Balda, and Hospital General Rodriguez Zambrano in the cities of Portoviejo and Manta. They visited the Orphanage Casa Hogar De Belen and distributed toys and clothing to the children in residence. A visit to a not-for-profit organization (Fundacion de Ninos San Lucas) opened the door for future visits. Student participants plan to organize a fund raising effort for the Fundacion de Ninos San Lucas through the Nursing Club.
Kingsborough Students, Jennifer Zhou and Yonette Williams, win Les Dames D’Ecoffier Scholarships
Sep 28th
Les Dames d’Escoffier New York (LDNY)—founding and largest chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International—a philanthropic organization whose members encompass women of achievement in the fine food, beverage and hospitality industry, awarded 20 Make A Difference Scholarships totaling $47,300 at a reception on July 13. Kingsborough Community College students, Jennifer Zhou and Yonette Williams, were among the scholarship recipients.
LDNY received 60 applications from a diverse group of talented women pursuing degrees in the culinary arts, food nutrition, fine beverage and hospitality fields. Scholarships are granted on the basis of the applicant’s resume, transcript and grade point average, growth experience plus professional and personal references. Applicants are also required to submit an essay, describing their achievements, career goals and the reason they merit financial sponsorship.
Kingsborough Peer Educators Fight Crisis in the Crib
Mar 23rd
KCC trainees pose with Tonya Lewis Lee (Mrs. Spike Lee), honorary chairperson of Crisis in the Crib, during training in November.
By Brandon Moriarty
A small group of Kingsborough Community College (KCC) Health students have launched a campaign to make a big difference in the health of children before they are conceived.
In February, four students took the powerful messages they received in November as U.S. Office of Minority Health Preconception Health trainees to St. Francis College, in Brooklyn Heights, as trainers. Financially supported by the New York Chapter of March of Dimes, this two-day training had a clear message: if you take steps to become healthy before conceiving a child, your child’s odds of living to celebrate his or her first birthday will increase dramatically.
The students, members of the KCC Community Health Club and advised by KCC Community Health co-director Dr. Karen Denard Goldman, conducted a Preconception Peer Educator
Training event to inspire and prepare other students to spread awareness of a lesser-known – yet critically important – health issue. The students are trainers Farrah Denis, Xondra Garraway, Brandon Moriarty, and Colleen Seymour.
Four Kingsborough Public Safety Officers Honored At CUNY Medal Award Recognition Ceremony
Feb 28th
President Regina Peruggi congratulates officers. L-R CPO Tamara Bailey, Corporal Veronica Rodriquez, Public Safety Director Pat Morena, President Regina Peruggi, Sergeant Mario Cintron and Corporal Alfredo Rodriguez..
On February 18, at 12 noon, in the Recital Hall of the CUNY Graduate Center, four Kingsborough public safety officers were awarded medals at CUNY’s 2nd Annual Medal Award Recognition Ceremony for their courageous performance on October 7, at approximately 4:30 p.m., when they responded to a tragic scene on Oriental Boulevard and Falmouth Street.
Evan Svirsky, 4, was struck and killed by a B49 bus. His mother, Irina Liberman, 45, tried to save him and, in the process, was struck on the head by the bus mirror, rendering her critical. Evan’s brother, 6, was with them at the time but was unhurt.
Edgar Troudt and Christoph Winkler Won the Prestigious Michael Ribaudo Award for Computing Achievements
Feb 3rd
Dr. Stuart Schulman, executive director of the Institute of Virtual Enterprise (center), joins Dr. Christoph Winker, associate and curriculum director (left) and Edgar Troudt, technology director, to display the coveted Michael Ribaudo Award.
Kingsborough’s Edgar Troudt, technology director for the CUNY Institute of Virtual Enterprise (IVE) and Dr. Christoph Winkler, associate and curriculum director for IVE, won the prestigious 2010 Dean Michael Ribaudo Award for computing achievements.
The award recognizes individuals who have played a role in the development of technology benefitting their college, its faculty, staff and students. It honors Michael Ribaudo, the late CUNY Dean of Computer Information Systems and Chief Technology Officer.
The award was presented by CUNY-IT at its annual conference on December 3, 2010.
Criminal Justice Experts Discuss Stop and Frisk – Second Forum Planned
Feb 3rd
Kingsborough students at "Stop and Frisk" forum.
More than 400 Kingsborough Community College (KCC) students and more than 60 Brooklyn high school students gathered, in November, in the Marine Academic Center (MAC), to learn from a panel of Kings County Court judges and criminal justice practitioners what they should and should not do when stopped by police.
The forum, entitled “Legal or Illegal: Perceptions and Realities of the Criminal Justice System,” was co-sponsored by the Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science and the Men’s Resource Center. It was led by Dr. Christopher Chapman, assistant professor, and Michael Rodriguez, director of the Men’s Resource Center.
Pinning Ceremony Held for Nursing Class of December 2010
Dec 16th
Kingsborough Community College Nursing graduates.
On Wednesday night, December 14, 74 nursing and 11 surgical technology students, one of the Nursing Department’s largest graduating classes, crossed the stage of the Kingsborough Community College (KCC) Performing Arts Center and received their nursing pins and congratulations from college administrators, professors, family and friends.
“I am delighted to be here tonight to share in the celebration of your success. I know that each of you has come to this point in your life having your own personal journey, but you have been guided down that road by some of the most dedicated educational professionals I know—members of our Kingsborough Nursing faculty,” said Dr. Regina Peruggi, president of KCC. “It is vitally important for schools like KCC to continue to educate nurses to re-supply and to reinvigorate the profession. At KCC, we strive to educate more nurses, to provide more scholarships for nursing students, and to provide the department with the very best equipment and labs. Community colleges throughout our nation are vital to the education of health care professionals.”
Professor Contreras Shares KCC’s Emergency Medical Services Expertise With Ecuador, Spain And Mexico
Dec 15th
Professor Contreras joins paramedic and nursing students at Universidad Tecnica de Manabi for a celebratory photo at the completion of their CPR/ first aid training that he provided.
Professor George W. Contreras, an emergency medical services (EMS)expert, who recently joined Kingsborough Community College (KCC) as director of its future Allied Health Sciences Department, has been sharing the college’s expertise in Ecuador and Spain at the invitation of officials in those countries. Later this month, Professor Contreras will provide EMS training in Mexico.
In October, Professor Contreras traveled to Portoviejo, Ecuador to provide first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to paramedics and nursing students at the local university, Universidad Tecnica de Manabi (UTM). He also provided training to the local ambulance squad, Red Cross volunteers and regional firefighters. He has been working with the city since 2004 to help it develop a coordinated 911 system.
In September, Professor Contreras accepted an invitation from Mayor Fernando Campos Cresp of Miranda, Spain to speak at the city’s first EMS and Disaster Conference. At the conference, Professor Contreras conducted presentations regarding the EMS system in the United States, the September 11th attacks in New York City and his recent humanitarian disaster response trip to Haiti. He also served as an evaluator to the city’s first disaster drill.
Kingsborough Biological Science Student Receives Award At 10th Annual Biomedical Research Conference
Dec 15th
Professor Farshad Tamari and Student Andres Thomas
Kingsborough Biological Science student Andres Thomas received an award, which included $250, for his poster presentation at the 10th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students held November 10-14, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
More than 1500 poster presentations were made but only 157 participants received awards. The conference theme was “The Future of Science: Diverse People, Diverse Needs.”
There were more than 3300 attendees, including 17 students and five mentors from Kingsborough Department of Biological Sciences. All students submitted abstracts to their mentors which were accepted for presentation at the conference. Thomas, with the assistance of his mentor, Professor Farshad Tamari, presented a poster entitled “Preliminary Investigations of Distyly in Primula Acaulis: Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Short– and Long-Styled Plants.”
Brent Staples, New York Times Reporter, reported on the conference: